Tag: Teams

New Microsoft Teams Features

Posted on October 21, 2022 by in Classroom Tech, Microsoft 365
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As you know, Microsoft Teams is a powerful tool for collaboration and instruction. Teams is now the flagship application within Office 365. What would we do without it? How did we get work done prior to this amazing app?

Well, it’s fun to reflect on how things have changed in our workflow, but that’s not what we are writing about today. Instead, we write this post to share yet more new features of Microsoft Teams for this fall. These new features include scheduling your chat messages, sending video messages in chat, CTRL+F to search chat history, new whiteboard features, and new …

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New Home Page and Reflect App in Class Teams

Posted on August 12, 2022 by in Classroom Tech

If you are using Microsoft Class Teams, you will want to hear this. There have been two major additions to the Class Team – Home Page and Reflect. The new Home Page link can be found just under your class name and it provides a web page that you can edit freely to provide information and resources to your students.

The other new addition is the Reflect link, just a couple notches down from the Home Page link. If you have been using the Reflect app, you will be happy to know that it is now much easier to access …

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10 New Features in Teams Assignments

Posted on March 18, 2022 by in Classroom Tech
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More new features in Teams Assignments! Wow, the hits just keep on coming. Here is a quick summary of these new features:

Turn in an assignment on behalf of a studentNotifications for late assignmentsMinimize speed grader to maximize student work viewAssignment notification controlsMobile app video recording for studentsMobile app rubric creatorCreate a challenge assignment in Reading Progressand more

Wondering how to use these? Microsoft’s very own Mike Tholfsen has created a quick video tutorial on how to use all of these new features. Take a look…

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How to Use Search in Teams

Posted on February 04, 2022 by in Productivity
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Do you have too many Teams in your Teams app to the point where you cannot find them anymore? Do wish there was an easy way to find older conversations and files across all of your Teams? Well, you are in luck. Microsoft Teams has a search feature built right into the app. You can search for a Team or Channel and jump right to it. Or you can search by keyword to locate that file or message that seemed to be lost in the Teams cavern of content.

How do you use the search feature in Teams, you ask? Well …

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New Teams Assignment Features

Posted on December 10, 2021 by in Classroom Tech, Video
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The Class Teams Assignment builder just got an upgrade. What’s new you ask? You can now use video recording and whiteboard as platforms for students to submit work. And, you can now have the assignments post to your students’ calendars. The video recording aspect runs on the Stream platform and can be used by the students to record themselves explaining their work or responding to a prompt. In addition, the teacher can use it to record themselves explaining the task or new concepts for the students.

The whiteboard feature utilizes Microsoft Whiteboard, which we have seen as a stand-alone app …

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